Pleurobranchidae

Taxobox
name = Pleurobranchidae


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Notaspidea
familia = Pleurobranchidae
familia_authority = Menke, 1828 cite book | title=Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum quae in museo Menkeano adservantur| last=Menke| first=C.T.| date=1828| pages=91| publisher=Uslar| location=Pyrmonti]
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies
subdivision =
* Pleurobranchinae Gray, 1827
** Tribe Pleurobranchini Gray, 1827
** Tribe Bathyberthellini Garcia, troncoso, Cervera & Garcia-Gomez, 1996
** Tribe Berthellini Burn, 1962
* Pleurobranchaeinae Pilsbry, 1896

The Pleurobranchidae are a taxonomic family of sea snails or limpets, marine opistobranch gastropod molluscs in the order Notaspidea.

The species in the family Pleurobranchidae have a prominent mantle and an internal shells that becomes reduced or is lost in adults cite journal | author=R. Willan| title=Phylogenetic systematics of the Notaspidea (Opisthobranchia) with a reappraisal of families and genera| journal=AM; Malacol. Bull.| year=1987| volume=5| pages=215–241] . Some adult species have been seen feeding on ascidians. while larval pleurobranchids can be planktotrophic (feeding on plankton), lecithotrophic (deriving nutrition from yolk), or direct developing Many species produce secretions from their rich glandular mantle as a chemical defense against predators cite journal | author=Aldo Spinella, Ernesto Mollo, Enrico Trivellone and Guido Cimino| title=Testudinariol A and B, two unusual triterpenoids from the skin and the mucus of the marine mollusc Pleurobranchus testudinarius| journal=Tetrahedron| year=December 1997| volume=53| issue=49| url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6THR-3SDCT91-V&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b54fd176224b1354702ef12999bd20d2| pages=16891–16896| doi=10.1016/S0040-4020(97)10124-7] Even the production of sulfuric acid has been reported. cite journal | author=T. Thompson| title=Acidic allomones in marine organisms| journal=J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK| year=1988| volume=68| pages=499–517]

Taxonomy

Traditionally, this family belongs to the suborder Notaspidea. However, in the new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Pleurobranchidae has been placed in the superfamily Pleurobranchoidea, the only family belonging to the subclade Pleurobranchomorpha (sister to the subclade Nudibranchia), part of the clade Nudipleura.

Subfamily Pleurobranchinae

*"Berthella" de Blainville, 1824
**"Berthella africana" Pruvot-Fol, 1953 [ Cervera et al (2000). J.Moll. Stud., 66: 3001-311. ]
**"Berthella agassizi" MacFarland, 1909)
**"Berthella americana" A. E. Verrill, 1885
**"Berthella aurantiaca" Risso, 1818
**"Berthella caledonica" Dall, 1900 California sidegill slug
**"Berthella californica" W.H. Dall, 1900
**"Berthella canariensis" Cervera, J.L., T.M. Gosliner, J.C. García-Gómez & J. Ortea, 2000
**"Berthella elongata" Cantraine, 1835
**"Berthella martensi" Pilsbry, 1896
**"Berthella medietas" R. Burn, 1962
**"Berthella ocellata" delle Chiaje, 1830
**"Berthella ornata" T.F. Cheeseman, 1878
**"Berthella. patagonica" d'Orbigny, 1837
**"Berthella platei" Bergh, 1898 [cite journal | author=Michael Schrüdl| title=The genus Berthella Blainville, 1825 (Notaspidea, : Pleurobranchidae) from Magellanic waters journal=J. Moll. Stud| year=1999| volume=65| url=http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/4/399| pages=399–409| doi=10.1093/mollus/65.4.399| journal=Journal Molluscan Studies]
**"Berthella plumula" Montagu, 1803
**"Berthella sideralis" Lovén, 1846
**"Berthella stellata" Risso, 1826
**"Berthella strongi" MacFarland, 1966
**"Berthella tamiu" Ev. Marcus, 1984 [ Marcus, Ev. 1984. The Western Atlantic warm water Notaspidea (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia), Parte 2 Boletim de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo 8 p. 43-76. ]
**"Berthella tupala" Er. Marcus, 1957
*"Berthellina" Gardiner, 1936
**"Berthellina amarillus" Mattox, 1953)
**"Berthellina americanus" Verrill, 1885
**"Berthellina circularis" Mörch, 1863
**"Berthellina citrina" Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828 (synonym of "Gymnotoplax citrina" Er. Marcus, 1957 )
**Berthellina delicata W.H. Pease, 1861
**"Berthellina edwardsi" Vayssière, 1897
**"Berthellina engeli" Gardiner, 1936
**"Berthellina ilisima" Marcus, Er. & Ev. Marcus, 1967
**"Berthellina quadridens" Mörch, 1863 (junior synonym of "Gymnotoplax quadridens") [Morch, O. A. L. 1863. Contributions à la faune malacologique des Antilles danoises Journal de Conchyliologie 11 21-43. ]
*Bouvieria Vayssière, 1896
**"Bouvieria auriantiaca" Risso, 1813
**"Bouvieria ocellata" S. delle Chiaje, 1828
**"Bouvieria perforata" R.A. Philippi,1844
*"Euselenops" Pilsbry, 1896
**"Euselenops luniceps"
*"Gigantonotum"
**"Gigantonotum album" Lin, G. & S. Tchang, 1965
*"Oscanius" Leach, 1847
**"Oscanius tuberculatus" Meckel, 1808
*"Gymnotoplax" Pilsbry, 1896
**"Gymnotoplax citrina" Er. Marcus, 1957
**"Gymnotoplax engeli" Gardiner, 1936
**"Gymnotoplax quadridens"
*"Pleurobranchus" Cuvier, 1805
**"Pleurobranchus areolatus" Mörch, 1863 Atlantic sidegill slug
**"Pleurobranchus albiguttatus"
**"Pleurobranchus atlanticus" R.T. Abbott, 1949 (possibly a synonym of synonym of "P. albiguttatus")
**"Pleurobranchus delicatus"
**"Pleurobranchus emys" Ev. Marcus, 1984
**"Pleurobranchus evelinae" T. E. Thompson, 1977
**"Pleurobranchus forskalii" Rueppell & Leuckart, 1830
**"Pleurobranchus garciagomezi" Cervera, J.L., Cattaneo-Vietti & M. Edmunds, 1996 [ Fontes, J., Tempera, F. & Wirtz, P. 2001. On some interesting opisthobranchs (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Azores. Arquipélago. Life and Marine Sciences, 18A: 85-87 ]
**"Pleurobranchus gigas" Sawaya & Grempel, 1972
**"Pleurobranchus grandis" W.H. Pease, 1868 [Pease, W.H. (1868). Descriptions of marine Gasteropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. AmericanJournal of Conchology, 4(2): 71-80, Pls. 7-10.]
**"Pleurobranchus hilli" C. Hedley, 1894
**"Pleurobranchus hirasei" K. Bába, 1971 [ Baba, K. (1971) Pleurobranchus hirasei n.sp., Proposed for a mollusc formerly known as Oscanius testudinarius: Hirase, 1927, from Japan (Opisthobranchia: Notaspidea). Venus, The Japanese Journal of Malacology, 30(1): 23-28,Pl.3. ] (possibly a synonym of "P. peroni")
**"Pleurobranchus iouspi" Ev. Marcus, 1984
**"Pleurobranchus lacteus" W.H. Dall & C.T. Simpson, 1901
**"Pleurobranchus mamillatus" Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard, 1832
**"Pleurobranchus membranaceus" Montagu, 1815
**"Pleurobranchus niveus" A. E. Verrill, 1901
**"Pleurobranchus peroni" G. Cuvier,1804
**"Pleurobranchus reesi" K. White, 1952 ("nomen dubium")
**"Pleurobranchus stringi" Mcfarland, 1966
**"Pleurobranchus testudinarius" Cantraine, 1835
**"Pleurobranchus weberi"
**"Pleurobranchus xhosa" Macnae, 1962 (possibly a juvenile form of "P. peroni)"
*"Pleurobranchella"
**"Pleurobranchella nicobarica" J. Thiele, 1925 [ [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004760161/en/ A record of "Pleurobranchella nicobarica" Thiele, 1925 : (Pleurobranchomopha : Pleurobranchidae) from off Kume Island, Ryukyu Islands, Southwestern Japan] ]
*"Pleuredhera"
**"Pleuredhera haraldi"
*"Polictenidia"
**"Polictenidia tomasi" Talavera, F.G., J.S. Troncoso, J.L. Cervera & J.C. García-Gómez, 1996
*"Susania"
**"Susania testudinaria" Cantraine, F.J., 1840 (synonym of "Pleurobranchus testudinarius")
*"Bathyberthella"
**"Bathyberthella antarctica" Willan and Bertsch, 1987 cite journal | author=Francisco José García, José Carlos García-Gómez, Jesús S. Troncoso and Juan Lucas Cervera| title=A descriptive study of some Antarctic notaspidean opisthobranchs (Gastropoda), with description of a new genus and species| journal=Polar Biology| year=May 1994| volume=14| issue=4| url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/w86q176w64494412/| pages=261–268]
*"Parabathyberthella"
**"Parabathyberthella eltanini" R.K. Dell, 1990
**"Parabathyberthella orcadensis" Talavera, F.G., J.C. García-Gómez, J.S. Troncoso & J.L. Cervera, 1994
*"Tomthompsonia"
**"Tomthompsonia antarctica" J. Thiele, 1912

Subfamily Pleurobranchaeinae

*"Pleurobranchaea"
**"Pleurobranchaea agassizii" R. Bergh, 1897 <:small>
**"Pleurobranchaea bonnieae" Ev. Marcus and Gosliner, 1984
**"Pleurobranchaea brockii" L.S.R. Bergh, 1897
**"Pleurobranchaea californica" MacFarland, 1966
**"Pleurobranchaea hedgpethi" Abbott, 1952
**"Pleurobranchaea inconspicua" R. Bergh, 1897
**"Pleurobranchaea japonica" J. Thiele, 1925
**"Pleurobranchaea maculata" Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard, 1834
**"Pleurobranchaea meckeli" Meckel in Leue, 1813
**"Pleurobranchaea obesa" (A.E. Verrill, 1882
**"Pleurobranchaea tarda" A. E. Verrill, 1880

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